Psalms 35:16
Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
In Context
17Lord, how long will you be looking on? take my soul from their destruction, my life from the lions.
Cross References
Job 16:9I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.
John 18:28So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.
1 Corinthians 5:8Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 35:12-17
Prayer for Deliverance; Sorrowful Complaints. 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. 12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves… Read the whole commentary →